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al-ʿAllāmah al-Imām

Shaikh al-Kul fiʾl Kul

Mian Sayyid Nazir Ḥussain

Muḥaddith Dehlawī [1220/1805 - 1320/1902]

A Paper for a 2 Day Seminar on the 4th -5th March 2017, New Delhi, India

The Affect of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and his Students in England and Beyond

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Abū Khuzaimah Imran Masoom Anṣārī

In defence of the sunnī creed and manhaj

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al-ʿAllāmah al-Imām

Shaikh al-Kul fiʾl Kul

Mian Sayyid Nazir Ḥussain

Muḥaddith Dehlawī [1220/1805 - 1320/1902]

A Paper for a 2 Day Seminar on the 4th -5th March 2017, New Delhi, India

The Affect of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and his Students in England and Beyond

By


S a l a f i R e s e a r c h I n s t i t u t e

L O N D O N - B I R M I N G H A M - L A H O R E

In defence of the sunnī creed and manhaj


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Contents -1- Introduction

-2- A Brief Sketch

I Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim

II Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī

III Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Thāqib

IV Shaikh Thanāullāh Siyālkoti

V Shaikh Maḥmud Aḥmad Mirpūrī

VI Shaikh Eḥsān Ilāhī Ẓahīr

VII Shaikh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī

VIII Shaikh Suhaib Ḥasan bin ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan Reḥmānī

ʿUmrpūrī

IX. Shaikh Badīʿ al-Dīn Shāh Rāshidī al-Sindhī

X. Shaikh Muḥibullāh Shāh Rāshidī al-Sindhī

XI. Shaikh Muḥammad Ḥasan Rāshid

XII. Shaikh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī

-3- The Affects of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī around the World



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Introduction

Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī is not in need of any introduction nor

of any mentions. This illustrious Imām and foundation of the Qurʾān and

Sunnah for over 60 years was the bedrock for Ḥadīth and the Ahl al-Ḥadīth. He

championed the pristine and clear call of the Qurʾān and Sunnah upon the

Manhaj of the Salaf, the companions, Tābiʿīn and the Taba Tābiʿīn. He

propagated and promoted the call of Qāl Allāh wa Qāl al-Rasūl in the

subcontinent when the general masses were shackled and constrained to

bigoted staunch taqlīd of their Imāms.

The atmosphere in the subcontinent in the early 13th century was dark

and bleak, the general Muslims were locked away from understanding the

Qurʾān and Ḥadīth, they were warned and reprimanded for even reading them

Qurʾān. They lived in an era where they were constantly reminded of their

allegiance and blind love for their Imāms and traversing away or deviating

from this would result in dire consequences, such was life in those times.


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Many people will be discussing and highlighting great aspects of the life

of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī so and so forth. What we intend to

focus on is his affect in spreading the divine call of the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth in

the western lands and focusing on England. This is itself a difficult task as the

students of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī were such great in

number who were dispersed in the diaspora of the subcontinent. As time

advanced so did modern technology and with the advances in science and

innovative transport mechanism, the Muslims travelled far and wide for a

whole host of reasons. Some travelled to study, some travelled to make a better

life for themselves and some travelled in order to spread the message of Islam

and the divine call of Tawḥīd.

Islām in the united goes as far back as the 16th and 17th century but with

the expansion of the East India company and charters given to various

companies to colonise, ravage and loot countries around the world. An affect

of this was the migration of Muslims to England, where they lived, studied and

eventually settled. At the turn of the 19th century Islam was establishing itself

with prominent Muslims in England.

In the 1950s and 1960s there was a wave of migrants from the Muslims

lands to cater for the shortage of workers due to the ever expanding modern

world. With this migration came many Muslims from the subcontinent,

namely India and Pākistān. With this influx of migrants came people of

knowledge, who for the sake of Allāh and for the call of Tawḥīd and Sunnah

spread the message of the pure and pristine Qurʾān and Ḥadīth without any

partisanship or bigotry towards a particular madhab, a city in India or any

specific individual.

This essentially was the call of all of the Prophets, singling out Allāh

without associating partners with him. Numerous teachers and scholars of the

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the same time starting calling to Allāh and his Messenger. These Scholars had

a link to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī with chains going back to

him. These scholars and students were so numerous that they show the

unparalleled and overwhelming teachings and guidance of the great Shaikh

and reviver of Ḥadīth in the subcontinent.

He is Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī. He was born in

1220H/1805 and began seeking knowledge at a tender age. In the year 1236H

when he was 16 years old he set out in pursuit and in the quest for the sacred

divine knowledge and met the early revivers of the daʿwah, Shaikh

Muḥammad Ismāʿīl Dehlawī (d.1246H)1 and the Shuyūkh of Sādiqpūr in Patna

which gave him fervor and zeal to got to Delhī to seek knowledge. He remained

in Patna for a while before setting off for Ghāzipūr and Ilabād. He continued

his journey and finally arrived in Delhī in 1243H. He studied with the

prominent scholars of his day from the likes of Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq

Muḥaddith Dehlawī (d.1262H)2 who was the grandson of Allāmah Shāh ʿ Abd al-

ʿAziz Dehlawī.3

It is sufficient for the virtue of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī

that his teacher Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq would instruct him to answer

1 Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth Hind, 2nd ed.

(Karachī: Maktabah Ahl al-Ḥadīth Trust, 1992), 67-113, Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq

Bhattī, Ghulistān Ḥadīth (Lāhore: Maktaba Quddusia, 2011), 45-66, Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulāmaʾ (Lāhore, Bayt al-Ḥikmat, 2004),

50-63 2 Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth Hind, 115-131,

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulāmaʾ, 377-379 3 Shaikh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Mīr Siyālkotī, Tārikh Ahl al-Ḥadīth (Lāhore: Maktaba

Quddusia, 2004), 470. Cf. Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Ghulistān Ḥadīth, 67-72,

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulāmaʾ, 45-47


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questions.4 After Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq made Hijrah to Makkah Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī was given the responsibility and position to teach

in place of the Waliullāh families centre of learning and this is why he was also

referred to Mian Jī, the title given to the members of the Waliullāh family.

Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī taught the various sacred sciences for

approximately 62 years whilst concentrating on the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth. Imām

Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī was undoubtedly one of the Imāms who

revived the call to the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth in the subcontinent. He died on the

10th of Rajab 1320H corresponding to 15th of October 1902.5

4 Shaikh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Mīr Siyālkotī, Tārikh Ahl al-Ḥadīth, 471 5 For the biographies of Shaikh Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī refer to Shaikh al-

Kul Mian Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī, Mʿayār ul-Ḥaq (Lāhore: Maktabah

Naziriyyah, 1965), 443-468, Shaikh Faḍal Ḥussain Bihārī, al-Hayāt Bʿad al-Mamāt

(Sāngha Hill, Maktaba al-Athariyyah, 1984), Fatāwa Naziriyyah (Delhi: Idārah Nūr al-

Imān, 1988), 26-52, Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth

Hind, 2nd ed. (Karachī: Maktaba Ahl al-Ḥadīth Trust, 1992), 131-159, Shaikh Mumtāz

Aḥmad ʿ Abd al-Laṭīf, Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Ka Ek Markaz Amwā Madinah al-Shaikh (Bihār:

Markaz al-Iṣlah al-Tʿalimī al-Khairī, 2000), 140-142, Shaikh Munīr Aḥmed al-Salafī,

Hāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Manān Wazirabādī (Lāhore: Farān Academy, 1994), 68-74, Muḥammad

Ibrāhīm Mīr Siyālkotī, Tārikh Ahl al-Ḥadīth, 473-484, Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī,

Dabistān Ḥadīth (Lāhore: Maktaba Quddusia, 2008), 25-106, Shaikh Qaḍī Muḥammad

Aslam Sayf Fairozpūrī, Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Tārīkh Ke Aine Mein (Mamu Kānjan:

Maktaba Tʿalīmāt Islamiyyah, 1994), 274, 323, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Majīd Suhdrawī, Ustād

Punjāb (Suhdra: Muslim Publications, 2002), 120-121, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī,

Hayāt Nazir (Lāhore: Nashriyāt, 2007), Shaikh ʿ Abd al-Rashīd ʿ Irāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā

Fī Tarājim al-ʿUlāmaʾ (Lāhore: Bayt al-Ḥikmat, 2004), 66-71, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd

ʿIrāqī, Chalīs ʿUlamaʾ Ahl al-Ḥadīth (Lāhore: Nomani Kutub Khana, 2001) 30-41, Shaikh

Rabīʿ bin Hādī al-Madkhalī, Tazkīr al-Nabihīn Bisīyar Aslāfihim Ḥufāẓ al-Ḥadīth al-Sabiqīn

wa’l Lāḥiqīn, 253-256.



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He had so many well known and prominent students that they are just

to many to mention as they span his 60 years of teaching the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth

and some of the students were major scholars in their own right. We have

attempted to show who these scholars were in the different lands and how the

dawah of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī spread all over the world.

What follows is a list of some of the scholars who came to the England

to sow the seed of Qurʾān and Ḥadīth with their lineage of ʿilm ie knowledge

going back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī. Some of the scholars

mentioned are from those who were highly influential in continuing the

legacy of teaching the divine texts.


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A Brief Sketch

I. Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim

The Shaikh was born on the 4th April 1908 in Panyām in the district of Mirpūr

in Azād Kashmīr. He began seeking knowledge at the tender age of 7 and

throughout his early years he attended various madāris and institutes in the

local areas in pursuit of knowledge and the sacred sciences. This continued

until the Shaikh reached the age 28.

1. His Travels to Amritsar in Pursuit of Knowledge

The Shaikh travelled to Amritsar when he was 28 years old in 1932 and enrolled

in Madrassah al-Quds and completed his Dars Niẓamī. During these years in his

free time he would attend the famous and leading institute of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth

at the time which was Madrassah Ghaznawiyyah where he studied and learnt

some classical texts and manuals. He studied with numerous scholars in both

institutes and benefitted from them.



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Some of the Scholars Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim studied with includes

the likes of Shaikh Dawūd Ghaznawī, Shaikh al-Ḥadīth Naik Muḥammad,

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Kabīr Kāshmirī, Shaikh Muftī Muḥammad Ḥasan, Shaikh al-

Manāzirīn Thanāullāh Amritsarī, Shaikh Allāmah ʿAbd Allāh Rauparī. These

scholars were direct students of al-Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.

He then returned back to his native land continued to teach up until 1962.

2. His Time in England

The Shaikh migrated to England in 1962 and began working as well teaching

students in various places. At the time England was peaceful without any

sectarianism and factionalism and the Shaikh was able to continue in his goal

and mission. When the ugly head of blind imitation and partisanship raised its

head the Shaikh was forced to continue this glorious call independently.

This was the impetus for the Shaikh to set up his own Madrassah which

eventually led him and others to set up the Jamiyyah Ahl al-Ḥadīth Britannia

in 1975 and the first Salafī Madrassah in Alum Rock on George Arthur Road,

right next to a Baptist church. The daʿwah continued and eventually another

huge building was acquired in 1979 and Madrassah Salafiyyah 20 Green Lane

was officially opened with 4 teachers. From here on in numerous other

branches were set up around the United Kingdom and in this way the call of

the Ahl al-Ḥadīth spread everywhere and fruits of this can be seen today. The

Shaikh also began to publish a monthly magazine called Ṣirāt al-Mustaqīm,

which is now world famous and is distrusted globally even until today after

almost 40 years.


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3. Daʿwah Programs and Seminars Around the World

Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim would often be invited around the world for daʿwah

programs, seminars and conferences. He travelled to Turkey, Irān, Kashmīr,

Germany, Pākistān, India, Nepāl, Bangladesh, Palestine, Baltistān, Sʿaudī

ʿArabia, Indonesia as well as other countries for daʿwah purposes.

4. Affects of the Daʿwah

It is very obvious with all these efforts the message of Tawḥīd and Sunnah

spread throughout the whole of the Britain. Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim was also

instrumental in setting up a Muslim Youth Movement, a department for

Daʿwah and Iṣlah, an education department and an Islamic Library. The

numerous institutes and madrassahs in the United Kingdom and their

teachings are all as a result of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.6

6 Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim, Muṭālʿatī Safar (Lāhore: Nomani Kutab Khana, 2000), 28-

31. Introduced, verification and correction by Shaikh Ishāq Bhattī 15-27. Cf. Shaikh

Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim, Tārikh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Europe Mein (Lāhore: Nomani Kutub Khana,

1997), 27-48. Introduced by Shaikh Bashīr Anṣārī and Advocate ʿAbd al-Khāliq Anṣārī,

Professor Mian Muḥammad Yusūf Sajjād, Tazkirrah Ulamāʾ Ahl al-Ḥadīth Pākistān

(Siyālkot: Jāmiʿa Ibrāhimiyyah, 1992), 3:223-225, Shaikh Mahmūd Aḥmad Mirpūrī,

Every Innovation is Misguidance, trans., Abū Ḥibbān Malak and Abū Khuzaimah Imran

Masoom Anṣārī, (Birmingham: Salafi Research Institute, 2016), 15-17



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II. Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī7

Shaikh Ghondalwī was born in 1315/1898 in Ghondalawalā which is in Punjāb

Pākistān. He studied with the direct students of Imām Nazir Ḥussain

Muḥaddith Dehlawī as well as the students of the students of Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī. Some of the teachers he studied under include,

1. Shaikh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn

Shaikh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn who was born in 1238H/1823. He studied with Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī in Delhī and then remained with him to seek

knowledge. He returned to Pākistān in 1870c and continued to teach the

Qurʾān and Ḥadīth, so much so that he was physically removed from a masjid

whilst in the state of prayer because he was a ‘Wahābi.’ Shaikh ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn due

to this quest for propagating Tawḥīd began to deliver lectures in open fields

and Alḥamdulillāh his daʿwah spread far and wide in Pākistān. He continued

his daʿwah until he died in 1921c. Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī started

learning from him in Gujranwala in his early years.8

7 Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī, Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī (Lāhore: Maktaba Quddusia,

2012) Cf. Professor Mian Muḥammad Yusūf Sajjād, Tazkirrah Ulamāʾ Ahl al-Ḥadīth

Pākistān, 3:243-266, Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Naqūsh ʿAẓmat Rafta (Lāhore:

Maktaba Quddusia, 1999), 11-122, Shaikh Qaḍī Muḥammad Aslam Sayf Fairozpūrī,

Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Tarikh Ke Aine Mein, 414-417, Maqalāt Muhaddith Ghondalwī

(Gujranwalā: Umm-ul-Qura Publications, 2011), 9-54, Shaikh Abd al-Majīd Suhdrawī,

Ustād Punjāb, 139-140, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-

Ulamāʾ, 289-293 8 Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī, Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 39-40, 145-146


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2. The Ghaznawī Family9 and their Masrassah Ghaznawiyyah

Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh Ghaznawī was born in 1230H/1815, he was expelled from his

home town due to rejecting shirk and taqlīd and ended up studying the Qurʾān

and Sunnah under Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and attained ijāzah

from him in around 1272H/1858. He moved places due to the people causing

him harm and whilst on his travels he called and raised the flag of Tawhīd,

then finally he settled in Amritsar with his family where he died in 1298H.

He had 12 sons all of whom were scholars.10 The family had set up

Madrassah Ghaznawiyyah in Amritsar and all of Shaikhs ʿ Abd Allāh Ghaznawī’s

as well as other teachers taught in it. It is this Madrassah Shaikh Muḥammad

Ghondalwī enrolled in in order to seek knowledge 1910.

Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī studied under Shaikh ʿ Abd al-Jabbār, the

son of ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghaznawī. Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār was born in 1268H/1852.

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār studied Qurʾān and Ḥadīth directly under Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and gained ijāzah from him. He authored

numerous books and compiled fatāwa, he died in 1331H/1913.11

Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī whilst in Madrassah Ghaznawiyyah also

studied under two sons of Shaikh Muḥammad bin ʿ Abd Allāh Ghaznawī12 ie two

nephews of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār Ghaznawī. The elder of the two scholars and

sons of Shaikh Muḥammad Ghaznawī which Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī 9 Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 125-143 10 Shaikh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Mīr Siyalkotī, Tārikh Ahl al-Ḥadīth, 495-499, Shaikh Qaḍī

Muḥammad Aslam Sayf Fairozpūrī, Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Tārikh Ke Aine Mein, 331-338 11 Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī, Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 41,146-148, Shaikh Qaḍī

Muḥammad Aslam Sayf Fairozpūrī, Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Tārīkh Ke Aine Mein, 338-341 12 Shaikh Muḥammad and Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār were brothers and as it has been

mentioned they were 12 brothers all of them scholars in their own right.



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studied were Shaikh ʿAbd Awwal Ghaznawī.13 Shaikh ʿAbd al-Awwal Ghaznawī

studied with various scholars as well as under his father, Shaikh Muḥammad

Ghaznawī, his uncle Shaikh ʿ Abd al-Jabbār Ghaznawī and Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh bin

ʿAbd Allāh Ghaznawī.14 He then travelled to Delhī and studied Qurʾān and

Ḥadīth under Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and eventually

returned to his family madrassah.

He was known for translating the books of Ḥadīth. Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Awwal Ghaznawī also died in 1331H/1913 ie both of Shaikh Muḥammad

Ghonadalwī’s teachers died in a space of a few months, first Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Awwal died in approximately in April 1913c and then in August Shaikh ʿAbd

al-Jabbār died of the same year. This year proved very difficult for Shaikh

Muḥammad Ghondalwī in his studies and he had to put extra effort in.15

After the death of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār Ghaznawī, Shaikh Muḥammad

Ghondalwī studied with Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ghafūr Ghaznawī who was also the son

of Shaikh Muḥammad Ghaznawī and the younger brother of Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Awwal. He acquired the basics in their family madrassah Ghaznawiyyah

Amritsar and studied under his uncle Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿAbd Allāh

Ghaznawī, Shaikh ʿ Abd Jabbār Ghaznawī and Shaikh ʿ Abd al-Rahīm Ghaznawī.16

He then travelled to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and

studied Qurʾān and Ḥadīth with him in Delhī and then he also returned to his

family madrassah and began teaching there. He set up a printing press and 13 Cf. Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Ghulistān Ḥadīth, 126-129 14 He was the eldest of the sons of Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh Ghaznawī and his name was the

same as his fathers. Cf. Shaikh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Mīr Siyalkotī, Tārīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth,

495-499 15 Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī; Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 42, 149 16 He was one of the younger sons of Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh Ghaznawī


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would print the Qurʾān and the translations of the books of Ḥadīth. He died in

1935c.17

This shows the calibre and depth of the knowledge of Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and also his extensive diligence in continuously

teaching the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth for decades, that three generations of the

Ghaznawī family studied under Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and

learnt the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth which is a radiant testimony of his great virtue

and his dedication to the methodology of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth. Indeed, this leave

a a person in nothing but awe of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.

3. Shaikh ʿAbd al-Mannān Wazirabādī

Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī’s chain to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith

Dehlawī also goes through Shaikh ʿAbd al-Mannān Wazirabādī. He was born in

1267H/1851 and at the tender age of 9 he lost his eyesight. His mother died

when he was 12 years old but despite all of these major calamities at such a

young, the little ʿAbd al-Mannān earned the title of the Ḥafiẓ and Ustād of

Punjab.

He travelled east and west in pursuit of knowledge and after finally

studying with Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī in 1288H. He eventually

retuned to his native land and continued to teach the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth for

over 40 years. He died in 1334H/1916 exactly 100 years to the day.18 17 Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī, Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 41, 149-151, cf. Shaikh

Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Ghulistān Ḥadīth, 150 18 Shaikh Munīr Aḥmed al-Salafī, Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Manān Wazirabādī (Lāhore: Farān

Academy, 1994), Shaikh ʿAbd al-Majīd Suhdrawī, Ustād Punjāb, Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī,

Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 43-44, 151-153, Shaikh Qaḍī Muḥammad Aslam

Sayf Fairozpūrī, Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Tārīkh Ke Aine Mein, 357-360, Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 239-242



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4. Shaikh Aḥmadullāh Partābgharhī

Shaikh Aḥmadullāh was an outstanding scholar who had studied under

numerous senior scholars of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth. He also studied with Imām

Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and authored numerous books. He died in

in 1943c.19

5. Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rahman Punjābī

The Shaikh was born in 1857c and after studying with various scholars he

studied the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth with Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.

He then remained in Delhī and taught the sacred sciences for over 40 years. I

was unable to find the year he died in.20

6. Shaikh Muḥammad Ḥussain Hazārwī

Shaikh Muḥammad Hazārwī studied with the students of Imām Nazir Ḥussain

Muḥaddith Dehlawī mainly the Ghaznawī family and authored amazing books

on various subjects. He died in 1925c.21

These are just some of the names and there are many more with whom Shaikh

Muḥammad Ghondalwī studied with and all them were the students of Imām

Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī. Again this gives the idea of the vast reach

of the teachings of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī. Shaikh

Muḥammad Ghondalwī had hundreds of students, who he taught in India, 19 Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth Hind, 174-179,

Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Ghulistān Ḥadīth, 153-156, Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī,

Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 154-155, Shaikh Qaḍī Muḥammad Aslam Sayf

Fairozpūrī, Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Tārikh Ke Aine Mein, 386-387, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd

ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 250-252 20 Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī, Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 155 21 Shāhid Fārūq Nāgī, Tazkirrah Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, 42, 151


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Pakistan and Saudi Arabia who then spread in the various lands on this earth

calling to the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth and thus propagating the call which once

Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī would sit in a chair in Delhi and also

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III. Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Thāqib

The Shaikh was born in 1949c and hails from Pākistān, he attended some

lectures of Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī in his early years and then

continued his studies under the senior students of Shaikh Muḥammad

Ghondalwī from the likes of Shaikh Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh Budhyamālwī,

Shaikh Muḥammad Ṣādiq Khalīl, Shaikh ʿAṭā Allāh Ḥanīf Bhojiyānī,22 Shaikh

Qudratullāh Fawq and Shaikh Muḥammad ʿAbduh Falāḥ.

He graduated from Madīnah University and thereafter was invited to

England as a teacher on the 29th of November 1975c. He started working with

Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim and set strong early foundations which were at

infant stages and since then he has been very active in daʿwah. He has

authored books and was also the deputy editor of the monthly Ṣirāṭ al-

Mustaqīm monthly journal published from Birmingham.

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Thāqib would write out the magazine with his

own hands in the early years. Shaikh Thāqib was also instrumental in writing

and compiling the first books that were used as part of the syllabus to teach

the children who enrolled in Madrassah Salafiyyah. As such the Shaikh was

also the president of the teachers.

The Shaikh since his advent in England has set up schools, a masjid and

the first Public Islamic library in the heart of Birmingham as well as numerous

community projects and is still currently active in daʿwah and other beneficial

22 Abū Ḥibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī comp., Allamah Shaikh Muḥammad Ataullah

Hanif Bhojiyani [1407H], http://www.salafiri.com/al-allamah-shaikh-Muḥammad-

ataullah-hanif-bhojiyani-1407h/. Accessed November 8, 2016.


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projects. At one stage he would deliver over 12 lessons over the course of every

weekend. 23

23 Professor Mian Muḥammad Yusūf Sajjād, Tazkirrah Ulamāʾ Ahl al-Ḥadīth Pākistān,

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IV. Shaikh Thanāullāh Siyālkoti

He was born in 1948c in Pākistān. His father revered Shaikh Thanāullāh

Amritsarī, the student of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and so he

named his son after him. Shaikh Thanāullāh studied in the various institutes

in Pākistān and also attained knowledge of the secular sciences. He continued

his education until 1987. He studied under the tutelage of Shaikh Muḥammad

Ghondalwī and his students from the likes of Shaikh Abu’l Barkāt Aḥmad and

Shaikh Muḥammad ʿAlī Janbāz.

The Shaikh since his time in England has been involved in Daʿwah and

lecturing and also remained the Amir of Jamiyyah Ahl al-Ḥadīth for a tenure.

He has published a few books and heavily contributes to the monthly journal

Ṣirāṭ Mustaqīm. He currently is engaged in daʿwah. 24

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V. Shaikh Maḥmud Aḥmad Mirpūrī

The Shaikh was born on the 6th of March 1945c corresponding to the 21st of

Rabʿi ul-Awwal 1364H on a Tuesday. He was born in the area of Nagyāl, in

Mirpūr district which is in present day Āzād Kashmīr. This general area is

known as Panyām and has always been associated with the ideology of Ahl al-

Ḥadīth for a long time. He studied with under Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī

and his students Shaikh al-Ḥadīth Abu’l Barkāt Aḥmad and Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Ghaffār Ḥasan Reḥmānī.

Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿ Āṣim with the aide of some associates started to use

a house in Alum Rock, Birmingham for their activities and also established a

madrassah in 1975. It so happened that in the same year in the summer of 1975

a Sʿaudī delegation on the order of Dār al-Daʿwah waʾl-Irshād waʾl Iftā, whose

president was Shaikh ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bāz, was sent to the

United Kingdom for research and daʿwah.

The head of this delegation was the great Shaikh Muḥammad ʿAbd al-

Wahhāb al-Banna and he was accompanied by the well known Albanian Ḥadīth

Master, Shaikh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī. They were also

accompanied by translators who were students of knowledge in their own

right and studying in Madīnah University at the time. They were asked to

accompany the delegation because of the large exodus of the Asian community

from the subcontinent.

The delegation was accompanied by Shaikh Maḥmūd Aḥmad Mirpūrī,

Shaikh Major Muḥammad Aslam and Sharīf Aḥmad Ḥāfiẓ. Shaikh Faḍal Karīm

ʿĀṣim tirelessly helped them whilst they engaged in daʿwah and propagated

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Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim’s efforts and diligence and acknowledged the speed

and rate of his work.

They also noticed the need for further callers to help Shaikh Faḍal

Karīm ʿĀṣim and he also expressed the need for young active yet

knowledgeable callers to come to the United Kingdom and assist with daʿwah

to the rapidly growing Muslim community in their thousands. The delegation

advised him to go and meet Shaikh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bāz and

request further assistance as he was the Head of Dār al-Iftā.

During December of the same year ie 1975 Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim

went for Ḥajj and also met Shaikh Ibn Bāz and he mentioned his request for

help. He explained the need for daʿwah and the growing Muslim population

and how western society was influencing them and how the Muslims were

contravening a dejected path.

Shaikh Ibn Bāz asked Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim how he could help him.

Shaikh Faḍal Karīm ʿĀṣim said the three students that came with the Islamic

University delegation during the summer could they be sent to the United

Kingdom to him. Shaikh Ibn Bāz was very pleased with the request and sent

Shaikh Maḥmūd Aḥmad Mirpūrī and Sharīf Aḥmad Ḥāfiẓ to United Kingdom

for Daʿwah and teaching at the behest of al-Daʿwah waʾl Irshād waʾl Iftā during

the latter part of 1976 when they both had completed their studies.25

The Shaikh then came to England and did groundbreaking work with

regards to daʿwah and his wider efforts in spreading the clear and authentic

25 Shaikh Mahmūd Aḥmad Mirpūrī, Every Innovation is Misguidance, trans., Abū Ḥibbān

Malak and Abū Khuzaimah Imran Masoom Anṣārī, (Birmingham: Salafi Research

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teachings of the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth. He orchestrated the daʿwah from main

masjid known as the Muslim community centre and Madrassah Salafiyyah up

until his death in 1988.

He rallied the Ahl al-Ḥadīth throughout the United Kingdom and

organized a structure, formulated sub structures and introduced more

departments. He set up a library and in the main masjid, organized daʿwah

programs, invited numerous scholars from around the globe, he helped and

aided setting up the various marākiz throughout England which now after all

praise belongs to Allāh thousands of students graduate from them.26

26 Shaikh Maḥmūd Aḥmad Mirpūrī, Fatāwa Ṣirāṭ Mustaqīm (Lāhore: Maktaba Quddusia,

1999), 14-20. More details can be read in Shaikh Maḥmūd Aḥmad Mirpūrī, Every

Innovation is Misguidance, trans., Abū Ḥibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, 5-24, Shaikh

Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Dabistān Ḥadīth, 446-452, Professor Mian Muḥammad Yusūf

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VI. Shaikh Eḥsān Ilāhī Ẓahīr

He was born on the 31st May 1945c corresponding to 18 Jumāda al-Ula 1364H

on Thursday in the City of Siyālkot (Pākistān). some of his teachers include,

Shaikh-ul-Ḥadīth Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ghondalwī, Shaikh Abu’l-Barkāt Aḥmad,

Shaikh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Shaikh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn Bāz, Shaikh

Muḥammad Āmīn Shanqīṭī, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād, Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Qādir Shaybah al-Ḥamd and Shaikh ʿAtiyyah Muḥammad Sālim and many

more.

Shaikh Eḥsān Ilāhī Ẓahīr was a second generation student of Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and was known for his empathic, eloquent and

awe inspiring talks and lectures. He travelled the world in calling to the Qurʾān

and Sunnah and authored some of the most detailed books on the various sects

which are considered and used as manuals even to this day and are world

famous. He came to to the United Kingdom in 1985c/1986c. He was a

phenomenal scholar and caller to Tawḥīd and Sunnah. He died in 1987c.27

27 Abū Ḥibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī comp., Allamah Shaikh Ehsan Ilahi Zaheer

[1407H], http://www.salafiri.com/al-allamah-ehsan-ilahi-zaheer-1407h/. Accessed

November 8, 2016. Cf. Shaikh Qaḍī Muḥammad Aslam Sayf Fairozpūrī, Tehrīkh Ahl al-

Ḥadīth Tārīkh Ke Aine Mein, 445, 610-613, Dr ʿAlī bin Mūsā al-Zahrānī, Shaykh Ehsān Ilāhī

Ẓahīr: Manhajuhu wa Juhūdahu fī Taqrīr il-ʿAqīdah wa’r Rad ʿAla’l Firaq al-Mukhālifah

(Riyaḍh: Dār al-Muslim, 2004), Professor Mian Muḥammad Yusūf Sajjād, Tazkirrah

ʿUlamāʾ Ahl al-Ḥadīth, 2:52-72, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī

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VII. Shaikh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī

The Shaikh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī visited the United Kingdom in

1975c and remained here for one month. He delivered numerous lectures and

sermons throughout the county. He is the world famous formidable Ḥadīth

master and is certainly not in need of any introduction. He authored hundreds

of books and checked thousands of Ḥadīth. There is not a student of knowledge

who has not heard the name al-Albānī and if one was to pick up any book and

you would be hard pressed to find the words authenticated by Shaikh al-

Albānī.

The Shaikh al-Albānī was given Ijāzah by Shaikh Rāghib al-Tabbākh

(1370H) who was in turn given ijāzah by the late Salafī and Ahl al-Ḥadīth

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Tawwāb Muḥaddith Multānī (1366H) of Pākistān, who was the

direct student of Shaikh Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.28

Therefore even the Albanian Ḥadīth Master has a chain going back to

Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and in this regard the efforts of

Shaikh al-Albānī and his students which spread throughout the arab lands

even as far as America go back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī

There are some further links which are much shorter.29

28 Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Ghulistān Ḥadīth, 161-166, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd

ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 250-253 29 Abū Ḥibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, ‘Responding To the Despondent Retractors of

Imām Muḥammad Nāṣir ud Dīn al-Albānī’s [1420H] Ijāzah from Shaikh Muḥammad Rāghib

at-Tabbākh [1370H], http://www.salafiri.com/responding-to-the-despondent-

retractors-of-imam-Muḥammad-nasir-ud-din-al-albanis-1420h-ijazah-from-shaikh-

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Shaikh al-Albānī during his stay in the England did tremendous daʿwah

and expounded on the call of Qurʾān and Sunnah whilst cultivating and

nurturing the Muslims in the United Kingdom as well purifying the discord

and evil affect of society and deviated sects on the methodology of the

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VIII. Shaikh Suhaib Ḥasan bin ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan Reḥmānī

ʿUmrpūrī

Shaikh Suhaib’s30 lineage is Shaikh Suhaib Ḥasan bin Abdul Ghaffār Ḥasan bin

ʿAbd al-Sattār bin ʿAbd al-Jabbār ʿUmrpūrī. The Shaikh was born in 1942 in

India and migrated with his family to Pākistān. The Shaikh has numerous

teachers but he mainly learnt from his father, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan

Reḥmānī.31 The Shaikh migrated to the United Kingdom in 1976c and has been

since actively involved in daʿwah in various activities and continues to teach.

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan Reḥmānī also visited England in 1978.

The ʿUmrpūrī family has a longstanding history of serving the Qurʾān

and Ḥadīth and their accolades are beyond the scope of this paper. However,

the links with Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī are so interlinked that

it only but shows the colossal affect of the daʿwah of Imām Nazir Ḥussain.

Following through the chains we get that Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār

ʿUmrpūrī was a direct student of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Dehlawī. He studied for

a very long time with Shaikh Nazir Ḥussain Dehlawī, he studied the books of

Tafsīr and Ḥadīth for example Bukhārī, Muslim, Nasāʿī and Ibn Mājah. He also

30 Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Dabistān Ḥadīth, 610-615 31 Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth Hind, 203, Abu

Hibban and Abu Khuzaimah Ansari, comp., The Compilation of Ḥadīth – Shaikh Abdul

Ghafar Hasan Rehmani (1428H), http://www.salafiri.com/ebook-the-compilation-of-

hadith-shaikh-abdul-ghafar-hasan-rehmani-1428h/. Accessed November 8, 2016. Cf.

Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Dabistān Ḥadīth, 182-215, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd

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obtained ijāzah for Ḥadīth from him in the year 1297H.32 Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār

ʿUmrpūrī was an outstanding scholar with much work to his credit.33

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Sattār ʿUmrpūrī,34 the son of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Jabbār

ʿUmrpūrī, studied with Shaikh Muḥammad Bashīr Sehsawānī,35 who was also a

direct student of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī. Furthermore,

Shaikh Aḥmadullāh Partāpgharhī who was also the direct student of Shaikh

Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī was also a student of Shaikh

Muḥamamd Bashīr Sehaswānī; he was also one of the teachers of Shaikh ʿAbd

al-Ghaffār Ḥasan.36

32 Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan Reḥmānī, Aẓmat Ḥadīth (Islamabād: Dār al-ʿIlm, 1989),

10, Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth Hind, 166 33 Abu Hibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, comp., Shaikh Abdul Jabbar Amrpuri [1344H],

http://www.salafiri.com/biography-shaikh-abdul-jabbar-amrpuri-1344h/ Accessed

November 7, 2016. Cf. Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-

Ulāmāʾ, 77-79 34 Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth Hind, 166-167,

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulāmāʾ, 79-80 35 Abu Hibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, comp., Allamah Muḥammad Bashir Sehsawānī

[1326H] http://www.salafiri.com/biography-allamah-muhammad-bashir-sehsawani-

1326h/. Accessed November 8, 2016. Abu Hibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, comp.,

10 Radiant Scholars of Ahl al-Hadith; Ahl al-Bid’ah Wished Were Never Born! – [1] – Shaikh

Muhammad Bashir Sahaswani (1326H) http://www.salafiri.com/10-radiant-scholars-of-

ahl-al-hadith-ahl-al-bidah-wished-were-never-born-shaikh-muhammad-bashir-

sahaswani-1326h/. Accessed April 9, 2017. Cf. Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah

al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 237-239, Shaikh Rabīʿ bin Hādī al-Madkhalī, Tazkīr al-

Nabihīn Bisīyar Aslāfihim Ḥufāẓ al-Ḥadīth al-Sabiqīn wa’l Lāḥiqīn, 256-257 36 Shaikh Suhaib & Shaikh Suhail Ḥasan, Mawlāna ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan, Ḥayat wa

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Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan’s teachers also include the likes of Shaikh

ʿUbaidullāh Reḥmānī,37 Shaikh Nazir Aḥmad Amlāwī Reḥmānī38 with the latter

two Shaikhs having links back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Dehlāwī via numerous

routes and chains, the main ones through the routes of Shaikh ʿ Abd al-Raḥmān

Mubārakpūrī39 and Shaikh ʿAbd al-Salām Mubārakpūrī.

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Hasan also taught in Madīnah University and all

the students who learnt from it are spread all over the world and there are so

many to name and mention, which is again another testimony of the great

virtue and reverence of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and how his

37 Fawāz ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ʿUbaidullāh Mubārakpūrī, Fatāwa Shaikh al-Ḥadīth Mubārakpūrī

(Lāhore: Dār al-Balāgh, 2014) (Vol.1 p. وو) Introduction by Shaikh Asghar ʿAlī Imān

Maḥdī Salafī and Shaikh Abul Ḥasan Mubashir Aḥmad Rabbānī. On the same page it

mentions that Shaikh Muḥammad Ghondalwī was Shaikh ʿUbaidullāh’s teacher. Cf.

Shaikh Suhaib & Shaikh Suhail Ḥasan, Mawlāna ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan, Ḥayat wa

Khidmāt, 52, Shaikh Rabīʿ bin Hādī al-Madkhalī, Tazkīr al-Nabihīn Bisīyar Aslāfihim Ḥufāẓ

al-Ḥadīth al-Sabiqīn wa’l Lāḥiqīn, 289-291.

Cf. Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Ghulistān Ḥadīth, 276-281, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd

ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 338-340 38 Shaikh Abū Yaḥya Imām Khān Nawshahrwī, Tarājim Ulamāʾ Ḥadīth Hind, 411-414,

Shaikh Suhaib & Shaikh Suhail Ḥasan, Mawlāna ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan, Ḥayat wa

Khidmāt, 55, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 287-

289 39 Fawāz ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, Fatāwa Shaikh al-Ḥadīth Mubārakpūrī, (Lāhore: Dār al-Balāgh,

2014] (Vol.1 p.وو). Cf. Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī, Dabistān Ḥadīth, 182-215, Abū

Ḥibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, comp., Shaikh Muḥammad Abdur-Rahman

Mubarakpuri [1353H] http://www.salafiri.com/biography-shaikh-muhammad-abdur-

rahman-mubarakpuri-1353h/. accessed November 4, 2016. Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd

ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 332-336. The latter also has a

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daʿwah and calling only to the Kitāb and Sunnah spread throughout the world

and in the United Kingdom.

What is further interesting the students of Shaikh ʿ Abd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan

became scholars in their own right and there are too many to mention, who

then also took up the task of teaching the people The Qurʾān and Sunnah and

many of their students are also in England, so the students of Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Ghaffār Ḥasan spread around the world and the United Kingdom and then also

their students, all with their chain of knowledge back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain

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IX. Shaikh Badīʿ al-Dīn Shāh Rāshidī al-Sindhī

This Imām of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth is not in need of any introduction. A colossal

mountain of knowledge and formidable in the sciences of Islam. This pillar of

the Ahl al-Ḥadīth was born in 1342H/1925c in Pākistān. He studied under

numerous scholars, some were direct students of Imām Nazir Ḥussain

Muḥaddith Dehlawī and others were students of students. They include, his older brother, Shaikh Muhibullāh Shāh Rāshidī, Abū

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥaq Bahāwalpūrī al-Muhājir Makkī, Abuʾl Wafā

Thanāullāh Amritsarī, Muḥaddith ʿ Abd Allāh Rauparī and the Muḥaddith of his

time, al-Allāmah Abū Saʿīd Sharf al-Dīn Dehalwī.40

Shaikh Badīʿ al-Dīn visited the United Kingdom two times, first in 1986

and the second and last time being in 1995. He delivered lectures around

England expounding on the call of the Prophets and explaining the fruits of

Tawḥīd. Explained the necessity to return to the statements of the Messenger

of Allāh (Sallalahu Alayhi Wasallam) and to obey and follow everything he said

without going in to the darkness of taqlid. He explained the negative affects

on society and how it takes a person away from the Dīn. He also had hundreds of students around the world from the east, west

and south, he also had the honour of delivering lessons in Ḥaram al-Makkī.

Hundreds of students have chains going through him which go through Imām

Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī which are from the fruits of his teaching.

He authored hundreds of works in different languages. He died in

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1416H/1996c.41

41 Abū Hibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, Allamah Shaikh Badi ud Din Shah ar-Rashidi

as-Sindhi [1416H]. http://www.salafiri.com/allamah-shaikh-badi-ud-din-shah-ar-

rashidi-as-sindhi-1416h/. Accessed November 7, 2016. Cf. Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq

Bhattī, Kārwān Salaf (Faiṣalābād: Maktabah Islamiyyah, 1999), 443-492, Professor Mian

Muḥammad Yusūf Sajjād, Tazkirrah Ulamāʾ Ahl al-Ḥadīth, 2:156-217, Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-Ulamāʾ, 398-400, Shaikh Rabīʿ bin Hādī

al-Madkhalī, Tazkīr al-Nabihīn Bisīyar Aslāfihim Ḥufāẓ al-Ḥadīth al-Sabiqīn wa’l Lāḥiqīn,

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X. Shaikh Muḥibullāh Shāh Rāshidī al-Sindhī

Shaikh Muhibullāh was born in 1340H/1921c. He was a prolific scholar and

considered an Imām of rijāl and Ḥadīth. He spent his whole life teaching and

writing. He had a profound love for books and collecting manuscripts and

developed the most extensive library in the sub continent which people would

travel far and wide to see.

His teachers include, His father al-Shaikh Ehsānullāh Shāh Rāshidī,

Shaikh Thanāullāh Amritsarī, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ḥaq Bahāwalpūrī, Shaikh

Muḥammad Ibrāhim Mīr Siyālkotī, Shaikh Abū Saʿīd Sharf al-Dīn Dehlawī,

Shaikh ʿ Aṭā Allāh Ḥanīf Bhojiyānī and many more. As we have mentioned these

teachers were the direct students of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī

or the students of his students.

In this regard he travelled to Turkey and the United Kingdom. Whilst in

the United Kingdom he delivered lessons and lectures in various cities and

visited the old libraries to look at books. He also authored over 50 books in

different languages. He died in 1415H/1995c.42

42 Abū Ḥibbān and Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, Shaikh Muḥibullāh Shāh al-Rāshidī al-Sindhī

[1415H] http://www.salafiri.com/biography-shaikh-muhibullah-shah-ar-rashidi-as-

sindhi-1415h/. Accessed November 8, 2016. Cf. Shaikh Muḥammad Ishāq Bhattī,

Kārwān Salaf, 379-410, Professor Mian Muḥammad Yusuf Sajjād, Tazkirrah Ulamāʾ Ahl

al-Ḥadīth, 3:273-276, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Rashīd ʿIrāqī, Tazkirrah al-Nabulā Fī Tarājim al-

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XI. Shaikh Muḥammad Ḥasan Rāshid

The Shaikh was born in the mid to late 1940s in Baltistān in Kashmīr. He began

seeking knowledge at an early age and initially learnt from his father who had

travelled to Delhī to seek knowledge. Shaikh Muḥammad Ḥasan Rāshid

travelled to various institutes in Pākistān and studied with the notable

scholars of the country, with one of them being Shaikh Karam al-Dīn Salafī

whose chain traces back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.

Shaikh Muḥammad Ḥasan Rāshid also studied under Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Ghaffār Ḥasan for over a year and we have already explored these links to

Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.

Then Shaikh Muḥammad Ḥasan Rāshid eventually travelled to Sʿaudī

ʿArabia and completed his studies from Jāmiʿa Islāmiyyah, Madīnah University

and then travelled to do his masters from Azhar University. He learnt from

some of the great scholars of this Ummah and spend time with them; Shaikh

ʿAbd al-ʿAziz bin ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bāz, Shaikh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī,

Shaikh Muḥammad Āmīn al-Shinqīṭī, Shaikh Ḥamād al-Anṣārī and many more.

Thereafter he was sent to Nigeria at the behest of Shaikh ʿAbd al-ʿAziz

bin ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bāz where he spent over a decade teachings Ḥadīth and its

sciences. He was then sent to the United Kingdom where he still continues to

teach the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth as well the other sacred sciences and he has spent

over 40 years teaching in the United Kingdom. The Shaikh resides in

Birmingham where he is still active and continues to teach in such a frail age.43

43 Cf. Abū Khuzaimah Anṣārī, A Brief Biography of Shaikh Muhammad Hasan Rashid, http://forum.salafiri.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=883. Accessed November 9, 2016.


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XII. Shaikh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī

Shaikh Rabīʿ ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī was born in 1351H/1933c and began seeking

knowledge at a very early age. He studied under the likes of Shaikh Ḥāfiẓ al-

Ḥakamī and also under the students of Shaikh Qarʿāwī. He also studied in

Madīnah University under some of the greatest scholars of the last century

which included the likes of Shaikh ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bāz, Shaikh

Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Shaikh Ḥamād al-Anṣārī, Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Muḥsin al-ʿAbbād, Shaikh ʿ Abd al-Ghaffār Ḥasan, Shaikh Muḥammad Amān bin

ʿAlī al-Jāmi, Shaikh Aḥmad Yaḥya al-Najmī, Shaikh Muḥammad Āmīn Shinqīṭī

and many more. The Shaikh also travelled to India where he taught for a few

years.

He has ijāzahs from the likes of Shaikh Badīʿ al-Dīn Shāh al-Rāshidī al-

Sindhī, Shaikh ʿUbaidullāh Reḥmānī Mubārakpūrī, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ghaffār

Ḥasan, Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz bin ʿAqīl and many more. All of the

aforementioned chains trace back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī

and we have already mentioned them in this paper.

Shaikh Rabʿi is also one of the few people who is alive today who has

one person between him and Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī, namely

Shaikh Faḍal Ḥussain Bihārī, the direct student of Imām Nazir Ḥussain

Muḥaddith Dehlawī and also the author of al-Hayāt Bʿad al-Mamāt.44

Shaikh Rabīʿ has been active in daʿwah for a very long time with regular

lessons on a daily basis and many students from the western lands attend this

lessons and lectures. In addition, regular tele links have been set up with the

Shaikh to give advice and admonition to the Salafī’s and the Ahl al-Ḥadīth of

44 ʿ Abd Allāh bin Muḥammad bin ʿ Amir al-Aḥmarī, al-Nahj al-Badīʿ Biasānīd wa Marwiyāt

Shaikh al-Rabʿi (Riyāḍ: Maktabah Dār al-Naṣihah, 2008). This book spans 496 pages

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the west which often falls on deaf ears.

Furthermore, Shaikh Rabīʿ also taught in Madīnah University for a

number of years and in this regard had numerous students who spread

throughout the lands to further teach the people. The Shaikh is also a writer

and has authored numerous books in the various sciences of Ḥadīth. The

Shaikh currently resides in Madīnah where he is still active and continues to

teaches.45

Shaikh Rabīʿ bin Hādī al-Madkhalī has also collated and compiled a book

on the biographies of the preserver of Ḥadith, called Tazkīr al-Nabihīn Bisīyar

Aslāfihim Ḥufāẓ al-Ḥadīth al-Sabiqīn wa’l Lāḥiqīn, and cited some of the

aforementioned scholars in it.

45 Khālid bin Dahawī al-Zufairī, al-Thanāʾ al-Badʿī Min al-Ulamāʾ ʿAla al-Shaikh Rabīʿ

(Cairo: Dār al-Minhāj, 2004), Majmūʿa Kutub, Rasāʾil wa Fatāwa, 1:1-14. Cf. Shaikh Badr

bin ʿAlī bin Ṭāmī al-ʿUtaibī, al-Ḥaṣn al-Manʿī Lildifāʿa ʿAn al-Shaikh Rabīʿ Min

Mashāghabah Ahl al-Tahhazab wa’l Tamyīʿa (Cairo: Dār al-Istimāqah, 2009), Shaikh Falāḥ

bin Ismāʿīl Mundakār, Difāʿa ʿAn al-Shaykhain al-Jalīlayn Muḥammad Amān al-Jāmī wa

Rabʿi bin Hādī al-Madkhalī (?, al-Halaqah al-Salafiyyah al-Nasāʾīh, 2013)


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The Affects of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī around

the World

Numerous other scholars have visited the United Kingdom from various

Islamic countries with everyone of them having an indirect link to Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and if we were to mention all of the names this

little paper would take the shape of volumes without any exaggeration. The

same applies to other countries of the world ranging from USA all the way to

Fiji in the Sea of Koro in the Pacific Ocean.

What is further amazing about the dawah and teaching of Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī of the Qurʾān and Sunnah are the sheer number

of students he had from the different lands. His continuous teaching of the

Qurʾān and Ḥadīth attracted hundreds of students and then more students to

his students and then students to their students etc and this is ongoing Allāhu

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His students came from the Najd, Baltistān, Turkemistān, Uzbekistān,

China and even Tibet. The students of his students even taught the founding

Sʿaudi family in Najd at the turn of the last century, namely Shaikh ʿAbd al-

Wāḥid Ghaznawī46 and Shaikh ʿAbd al-Raḥīm Ghaznawī who continued to

teach their family for five years.47

Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī had numerous students

numerous who became scholars from Sʿaudi ʿArabia and from Najd which

included the likes of Shaikh Sʿad bin Ḥamd bin ʿAtīq Najdī, Shaikh Ṣāleḥ bin

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Duwaish Najdī, Shaikh Ishāq Āl-al-Shaikh, Qāḍi Muḥammad

bin Nāṣir bin Ḥamd Āl-Mubārak, Shaikh ʿAlī bin Nāṣir bin Muḥammad Abū

Wādī al-ʿUnazī, Shaikh Fawzān bin Sābiq bin Fawzān and many other.

From such chains was Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh bin Ḥumayd who was the

student of Shaikh Sʿad bin Ḥamd bin ʿ Atīq Najdī. Shaikh ʿ Abd Allāh bin Ḥumayd

was born in 1329H/1908 and studied also studied with other notable scholars.

And in 1395H/1974 King Khālid appointed him head of the Senior Judiciary

Committee, member of the Council of Senior Scholars, head of the

Jurisprudence Committee, and member of the Foundation Committee for ar-

Rābitah al-ʿĀlam al-Islāmī.

He was known for his knowledge and service to the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth

and one time when The General Presidency for the Supervision of Religious

Affairs at al-Masjid al-Harām (in Makkah) was then set up and King Fayṣal

chose him to head the supervision of religious affairs at al-Masjid al-Harām, as

well as teaching there and passing fatwa. As a result, Allāh caused the Ummah

46 Shaikh Qaḍī Muḥammad Aslam Sayf Fairozpūrī, Tehrīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth Tārikh Ke Aine

Mein, 341-345 47 Shaikh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Mīr Siyalkotī, Tārīkh Ahl al-Ḥadīth, 499


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to benefit from his knowledge. He died in 1402H/1981.48

Shaikh Fayṣal bin ʿAbdul ʿAziz Āl Mubārak who was born in 1313H/1895

in Huraymila in Sʿaudi ʿArabia, he also studied with Shaikh Sʿad bin Ḥamd bin

ʿAiīq Najdī. He was known for his teaching and calling to the Qurʾān and

Sunnah. He authored numerous books some of which have printed, a

noteworthy title is ‘Maqām al-Rishād Bayna al-Taqlīd wa’l Ijtihād.’ He died in

1376H/1957.49

The Silislah of the lineage does not end here, both of the

aforementioned scholars studied with the Muftī of Sʿaudi ʿArabia, Shaikh

Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Āl-al-Shaikh. Shaikh al-Muftī Muḥammad ibn

Ibrāhīm was born in 1357H/1893 and studied with many scholars. He was

proficient in all of the sciences which shone through his numerous students

who were major scholars in their own right and there are too many to

mention. He was also granted a chain by Shaikh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Mubārakpūrī

who was the direct student of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī.50

Shaikh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Āl-al-Shaikh was the Grand Mufti of Saudi

Arabia from 1953 until his death in 1389H/1969.

The well known Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-ʿAqīl, the Shaikh

of the Hanābillah as often claimed by its adherents also had chains going back

to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Dehlawī in all of the books of Ḥadīth through Shaikh

ʿAlī bin Nāṣir bin Muḥammad Abū Wādī al-ʿUnazī. Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd

48 [Shaikh] ‘Abdullaah Ibn Humayd, http://www.fatwa-online.com/abdullaah-ibn-

humayd/. Accessed November 6, 2016. 49 Shaikh Fayṣal bin ʿAbd al-ʿAziz Āl Mubārak, Khulāṣah al-Kalām Sharḥ ʿUmdah al-

Aḥkam (al-Riyāḍ: Maktabah al-Rushd, 2001), 5-7 50 ʿAbd Allāh bin Rafdān al-Shahrānī, al-Allāmah al-Muḥaddith al-Mubārakpūrī wa

Manhajuhu Fī Kitābihī Tuḥfatu al-Ahwaḍhi Bisharḥ Jāmʿe Tirmidhī (Beirūt: Dār al-Bashāʾir

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al-ʿAziz al-ʿAqīl also had ijāzah and chains going back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain

Muḥaddith Dehlawī and also via his students through Shaikh ʿAbd al-Ḥaq bin

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid bin Muḥammad bin al-Ḥāshim al-Hāshimī.

It Is therefore a natural assumption that all of Shaikh al-ʿAqīl’s students

are part of these illustrious chains of the canons of Sunnī Law ie divine texts

of the books of Ḥadīth going back through the major scholar of the Ahl al-

Ḥadīth, the very same understanding some young and fresh batch of the

Ḥanābillah deny, strange and ludicrous indeed!51

Likewise, and similarly Shaikh Taqī al-Dīn Ḥilāli of Morocco was the

student of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mubārakpūrī who in turn was from the

well known students of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī. Shaikh Taqī

al-Dīn Hilālī studied with the Shaikh for a number of years and travelled far

and wide to the different lands to spread the call of Tawḥīd. He travelled to

Algeria, Egypt, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Spain, Irāq, Sʿaudī

ʿArabia and India where he studied, taught and spread daʿwah. He authored

numerous works and was known for his firm ʿAqīdah and Tawḥīd, he was also

instrumental in translating the Qurʾān into English which we so often use as

the Noble Qurʾān. He died in 1408H/1987.52

51 Cf. Muḥammad Ziyād bin ʿUmar al-Tukla, Fatḥ al-Jalīl Fi Tarjamah wa Thabt Shaikh al-

Hanābillah ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-ʿAqīl ed. 2nd (Beirūt: Dār al-Bashāʾir al-

Islamiyyah, 2008), 352-425, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin Nāṣir al-Saʿdī, Sharḥ ʿUmdah

al-Aḥkam (Riyāḍh, Dār al-Tawḥīd lil Bashāʾir, 2010), 29-30, comp., Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh

bin Muḥammad bin Nāṣir al-ʿAwhalī, intro., Shaikh ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn

ʿAqīl, verif., Anas bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān bin ʿAbd Allāh bin ʿAqīl. 52 Mukhlis Samtī, The Salafī Wahābī of Morocco: Muḥammad Taqiuddeen al-Hilālī

(Morocco: al-Majallāt al-Maghribiyyah lil-ʿIlm il-Ijtimā as-Siyāsī, 1993), Khālid bin

Sʿad al-Zahrānī, Master’s thesis for the Islamic University of Madīnah on Muḥammad

Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī entitled Muḥammad Taqi al-Dīn al-Hilālī wa Juhūdahu fī Daʿwah il-

Allāh [Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī and his Efforts in Daʿwah to Allāh].’ Abd al-Raḥmān


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We can continue listing the great scholars who have visited England

with chains going back to Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī, some other

names include Shaikh Ṣafī al-Reḥmān Mubārakpūrī, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Wakīl

Hāshimī, Shaikh Irshād al-Ḥaq al-Atharī, Shaikh Faḍal Elāhī Ẓahīr, Shaikh

Mukhtār Aḥmad Nadwī, Shaikh Waṣiullāh Muḥammad ʿAbbās, and the list is

endless.

We also have the likes of Shaikh Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Hādī ʿUmarī who

studied with Shaikh Ẓahīr al-Dīn Mubārakpūrī and his chain goes back to Imām

Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī, he is currently the Amīr of the Jamiyyah

Ahl al-Ḥadīth United Kingdom and has regular lessons and lectures

throughout the United Kingdom.

However, before we conclude we can say one of the most significant

affect of the teaching and daʿwah of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī

are the two largest works on the Ahl al-Ḥadīth and their service to Islam. These

books were authored in the United Kingdom by Shaikh Dr. Baha al-Dīn who

studied under numerous scholars whose chain traces back to Imām Nazir

Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī and has been residing in the United Kingdom for

over two decades. Dr. Baha al-Dīn authored Tārīkh al-Ḥadīth over seven

volumes and Tārīkh Khatm Nabuwwah which is over fifty (50) volumes.

There are the affects of the teachings of Imām Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith

Dehlawī that in the United Kingdom there are thousands of Ahl al-Ḥadīth who

attach themselves to the Qurʾān and Ḥadīth without any partisan ship or

al-Lumaysān wrote a treatise on Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī which was also

presented as a Master’s thesis at the Islamic University of Madīnah entitled Muḥammad

Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī wa Juhūdahu fiʾl ʿ Aqīdah [Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī and his Efforts

in Creed]. Cf. Journal Buhūth al-Islāmiyyah, no.8, Dhuʿl-Qaʿdah/Dhuʿl-Hijjah 1403 and

Muharram/Safar 1404/1983: taken from Shaykh Mashhūr Hasan Āl Salmān, The Life of

ʿAllāmah Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī trans., ʿAbd al-Ḥaq al-Ashantī (unpublished)



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bigotry. They present the speech of Allāh and his Messenger to the people

without any biasness or preference to any individual or city, town or institute.

The Salafī’s in the UK have progressed in academia as well Islamic sciences and

there are consistent and systematic circles and lessons throughout the United

Kingdom whereby the general people are taught the Dīn of Allāh, his Tawḥīd,

the repulsion and censure of shirk, obedience to Allāh and his Messenger,

upholding the Sunnah, shunning and subduing bidʿah and its corruptive affect

on society and the reprimand and rebuking of taqlīd.

We pray to Allāh for him to have infinite mercy and favour upon Imām

Nazir Ḥussain Muḥaddith Dehlawī for his diligence, efforts and patience for

Allāh and his Messenger and his repudiation of everything that opposed the

true divine revelation.

By the weak slave of Allāh,


5th November 2016

Updated April 2017

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